Chapter 47: Plain

I'm a great mechanic, Meng Fan!

Together, Meng Fan reached out and held the hairdryer in the bathroom in his hand.

"Get up!" Meng Fan poured almost all his attention on the hairdryer, trying to make it float beside him.

However, it failed. The hairdryer was motionless and very quiet in my hand.

"Is my ability also a dream?" Meng Fan muttered to himself and was in a trance.

What is real and what is illusory?

At this time, Meng Fan can't tell the difference between reality and illusion.

Moreover, in his memory, Meng Fan vaguely felt that there should be a group of very important companions around him, but their names could not be remembered at all.

"It's time to eat!" At this time, my mother's call suddenly came from outside the door.

"Hm?" It was this call that pulled Meng Fan back to reality. He hurriedly put away the hairdryer, opened the door and went out.

The sky is dark, the light in the living room is dim, there is a large basin on the dining table, and there is a seductive smell of meat in the air.

"Have you made braised pork so soon?" Meng Fan was a little puzzled.

"Son, come and eat."

"Come and eat."

Father and mother sat at the dining table and kept urging Meng Fan.

All this is too harmonious, and the harmony is a little unreal.

Meng Fan ignored his parents' urging, but went to the window and looked out in a stunned way.

A vast night, I can't see my fingers. The sky is gloomy, there is no moonlight, and there is no star embellishment. The boundless darkness is like the huge mouth of a fierce beast. Meng Fan is a little breathless.

"Son, come and eat!" Mother seemed to be a little angry. She pulled the curtains and completely covered the window. Then, she pulled Meng Fan to sit at the table.

Meng Fan looked at his mother coldly, stood up stubbornly and came to the window again.

Opening the curtains, it is still dark outside, and the sight is absolutely only half a meter.

However, Meng Fan remembers clearly that his home is in a small town. During the meal time, the lights outside the window were lit brightly, which was very warm.

Now, there is a confused darkness outside, which is not a scene in memory at all.

"Son, come back for dinner." My father shouted loudly and pulled a wooden stick at the table to beat Meng Fan.

Meng Fan laughed.

Wooden stick, where did the wooden stick come from at home? Is this thing just present or not? How could it suddenly come out?

"Disappear, disappear from my world!" Meng Fan said softly, "You abandoned me, so I don't miss you."

The parents' expressions were immediately stunned, and their bodies suddenly twisted violently.

When they twisted, Meng Fan's head had a burst of heartache, as if countless ants were nibbling on their brains and trying to completely swallow all their consciousnesses.

"Disappear, disappear!" Meng Fan's ten fingers were cut into the meat and shouted loudly.

'bang'

With a slight explosion sound, the parents' body suddenly exploded, turned into a little fluorescence, and disappeared in the vast night.

At the same time, all the decorations in the house, including the old house itself, collapsed and disappeared little by little. This familiar space, like a mottled black-and-white photo, was slowly torn apart and disappeared.

"I don't want you, never, never think of you." Meng Fan knelt on his knees, hugged his head in pain, and burst into tears.

"Brother Meng Fan, let's go and play." Suddenly, a childish female voice came to Meng Fan's ear, which was crisp and pleasant, very beautiful.

Meng Fan's heart trembled violently.

Looking up, a little girl came into her eyes, dressed in a small white dress with a gray background, a little shabby, but very clean, with a small red face, pink hands, and a pair of beautiful big eyes flashing, which was very cute.

"A vegetarian?" Meng Fan looked at the little girl with an inexplicable heartache.

Li Yinsu, Meng Fan's first friend and only friend when he entered the orphanage.

His parents divorced, abandoned Meng Fan, and even united to put Meng Fan into an orphanage. That year, Meng Fan was only 11 years old.

On the first night of entering the orphanage, Meng Fan was beaten by other orphans. In their opinion, Meng Fan had parents and was different.

Able night, a miserable situation, no relatives, no friends.

At that time, Susu appeared like a dawn in the night. She handed Meng Fan, who was injured, a glass of water and said innocently, "Little brother, don't be afraid, drink some water."

"Little brother, don't be afraid, drink some water."

This sentence will always be remembered by Meng Fan and often haunted in Meng Fan's mind and dreams.

And that glass of water has also become the sweetest and most mellow agar wine in Meng Fan's memory.

From that day on, the two became good friends, eating and playing together. However, the good times did not last long. Before long, a couple who lost their children came from the big city and chose a child from the orphans to adopt. That child was Su Su.

That year, Meng Fan was 12 years old and Li Yinsu was 10 years old.

Since that year, Meng Fan has never seen Susu again. He didn't expect to see her again in such an unreal scene.

"Brother Meng Fan, shall we go eat popsicles?" Susu took Meng Fan's hand and said naively, "Today, the dean gave me this week's pocket money."

With that, she opened her little hand and lay a 50-cent coin quietly in the palm of her hand, which was her pocket money this week.

In the orphanage, every orphan has to help the dean earn extra money, or paste paper boxes, or put beads on small ornaments, and the dean will give them a little pocket money every week according to the performance of these orphans.

Susu is young and easy to bully. Although she has to do a lot of work every day, she only has such a poor 50 cents a week.

"Let's go, let's go." Susu maintained a ten-year-old height of more than one meter, and her voice was also full of tenderness. As she spoke, she reached out and gently pushed it in front of her. A door suddenly opened out of thin air, and the dazzling light suddenly cut through the darkness. Outside the door, an unusually familiar scene in her memory appeared in front of Meng Fan.

In front of us is a small playground, with a blue sky overhead and bright sunshine. On the right side of the playground, several swings are swinging leisurely. A group of 11- or 12-year-old children are happily chasing and fighting, and laughter filled the whole small playground.

Meng Fan stood on the edge of the playground in a trance. Although he understood that this was an illusory scene, he still had a feeling of being deeply trapped by the little Susu beside him.

Now is the only free time for orphans after lunch. Once upon a time, Meng Fan looked forward to this moment most every day. In just an hour and a half, you can have fun, go to class, study mathematics and Chinese, and do odd jobs at night to earn extra money for the dean.

"Brother Meng Fan, the mother-in-law who bought popsicles didn't come today. Let's go on the swing." Susu pointed to the swing by the playground and said to Meng Fan.

Meng Fan looked at the little girl lovingly, bent down, gently stroked Susu's head, and said, "Susu, where are you? If only I could find you."

"What?" Susu tilted her head and said doubtfully, "Brother Meng Fan, aren't I right here?"

Meng Fan looked lonely and shook his head.

Meng Fan knew in his heart that what he saw and heard was not true.

However, trapped in such a situation, Meng Fan can't extricate himself at all, let alone how to break free from this illusion.

Parents who have not seen each other for ten years, the only sustenance of the orphanage, the blue sky...

In the illusion, Meng Fan saw all the beauty of his childhood. Sometimes, Meng Fan really hoped that everything in front of him was real - his parents were not divorced, and Susu had always been with him.

However, these are untrue after all. Parents' divorce and vegetarian adoption are undisputed facts.

Thinking of this, Meng Fan tightened his eyes and stretched out his hand to pinch the inside of his thigh.

Strangely, there is no pain.

"Has even the pain disappeared?" Meng Fan frowned. In order to confirm this, he found a sharp wooden stick by the playground and inserted it into his belly fiercely.

The wooden stick went deep into the lower abdomen, but there was no wound or pain after pulling it out.

Meng Fan's behavior scared Susu. She covered her mouth incredulously and her face was full of panic.

Although he knew that Susu was illusory, Meng Fan still couldn't bear it. He reached out and gently stroked Susu's head and comforted him, "Don't worry, Susu, I'm fine."

"Oh." Susu answered cleverly, jumped away and went on the swing.